Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon (91-0395)

ICAO type code is just F16.

Almost 50 years ago I built a Revell model in that exact livery

In the fall of 1976, I went out to General Dynamics in Fort Worth for an interview with my future boss. After the interview was over, he took me out to the flight line and showed me the first full scale development F-16 (FSD-1) which had rolled out (under it's own power, BTW) from final assembly just a few days before. I had seen that roll out on the local news the day it took place and now I actually got to walk up and touch it! It had this same livery which was also used on the flight test article. I started my employment just a couple of weeks later and retired in the summer of 2013 after the delivery of just over 4500 aircraft. To quote Clint Eastwood in "Firefox"... "what a machine"!!

Super Photo ........

Love your comment and personal F-16 History Scott. And Clint Eastwood

Beautiful

Oooh, that is night...sizzling!

50 years? Hard to believe!

FYI - the Fort Worth Air Museum just restored the 2nd prototype F-16.

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-restorations/restored-yf-16-prototype-2-unveiled-at-fort-worth-aviation-museum.html

Hard to believe it's been around for that long, still serving front line and kicking butt. An amazing airplane.

Nice paint job.

That bird is just sexy; I always loved the marketing paint scheme! Thanks for sharing...